Speaking of the work part . . . .

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It has been a day, and nothing like I had planned. Nothing to do with Halloween, either, just this constant need for errands, and the constant nonsense with things that aren't ready days after they're supposed to be. It's also been an extremely costly day, so a sale tonight to offset all of it would be welcome in the extreme.

That up there is the latest with regard to the hide. Wings has old-style drawknives, and he's going to do the work by hand. As you can see, the staff are ready and waiting to help [they wish; those two have FAR too. much interest in that hide, because I'm sure to them it smells absolutely wonderful]. Meanwhile, I have all of the rest of today's work still to get done tonight, and an ever-growing task list for tomorrow and the weekend.

Speaking of the work part, that brings me to my latest thing locally. However badly needed, this new cold means that things are going to become urgent, emergent, very fast for our local houseless folks, and for those who are at risk of losing their homes, unable to afford to the keep the heat and lights on, and so on [and on and on and on and on and . . .] . As I said yesterday, we have both given up entirely on the toxic, poisoned colonial politics of this country, and we're turning our efforts daily toward finding actual, concrete ways to help folks. Y'all can help, too:  a GFM for a local family we know [his grandmother and aunt supply the beads y'all love in Wings's work, and despite what it says about Phoenix, he's coming home now] that needs a lot of help, here; and an Amazon wishlist for a group I was invited to join yesterday that does outreach to local houseless folks with pets, gearing up for winter with survival supplies, here. No amount of election nonsense is going to help these folks, but WE CAN, so go give.

And of course, there's more than enough that I need to get done around here. It starts with sales, of course. And as I also said, I'm also redoing what I highlight here. Wings has SO MUCH NEW WORK that I can't keep up with it all, and I imagine listing it all is a bit overwhelming, so I'm just going to highlight a few items each day. Today's #TBT feature is a pendant [from 2006 or so], so here are the six pendants that are actually in our current inventory:

• "Meeting On the Bridge of Stars," as otherworldly as it sounds a naja set with a rare material, here; 
• "The Breath of the Light," a slightly more slender naja, this one set at the ends with sunny amber, here; 
• "Eagle Carries the Medicine of Earth and Sky," Eagle as you've never seen him, carrying earth and sky caught in an extraordinary stone, here;
• "Growing Together," incredible freehand stampwork rising from an OLD Orville Jack faustite root, here;
•  "The Last of the Storm," a phenomenal OLD cab of apple coral with Labradorite raindrops, here; and
• "The Bare Blue Bones of Night," his newest, completed the other day, with pine cone in resin and hand-made ingot drops, here.

There's more on the way very soon. And I need to sell them all, because I still need to make sales weekly for us to catch up on the year and cover all the stuff still in the pipeline that needs covering [roof, more medical, etc.]. So: GO BUY! Links are here:

• Sales here; 
• Testimonials here; 
• Amazon wishlist here (Priority is the liquid soaps and Amazon cards, probably most useful at this point); 
• Patreon here;
• Ko-fi here.

After such a grim year, this one already far worse than the last, we really need to get what's left of 2024 onto a better footing, so please share all of the links. 

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